Example sentences of "i have [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Always glad to see you , of course , though I must say that I 'd hoped to go off duty without any more trouble . |
| 2 | I 'd hoped to go to Australia , a mere couple of hours by jet , but the Colonel was too clever to allow that . |
| 3 | Originally I 'd hoped to apply for Scale 2 posts … but there are very few jobs , now . |
| 4 | Soon after my release from the old jail I 'd gone looking for the creche in which the Organisation for Working Danuese Women had made its home . |
| 5 | I 'd began hunting for data on phetam to see if it really was valuable as the Ardakkeans claimed , and if so , why . |
| 6 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 7 | No one in the hall except the grandfather clock I 'd seen floating in my dream ; no one came out of the sitting room . |
| 8 | She was under control when , in pleasant tones , she stated , ‘ To be more exact , I 'd intended to speak to Lubor to enquire if he 'd any idea when you might be returning from Prague . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd stayed to look for the aristocratic drop-out . |
| 10 | The glamorous nightdress I 'd bought to wear for his visit was still lying in my locker and , instead , I was wearing a shabby old hospital gown . |
| 11 | I explained how I 'd attempted to fire at the Corporal as Kaptan lay on the ground and how the gun had malfunctioned ; it would be more accurate to say I 'd been first to aim but the Corporal had got his shots off first . |
| 12 | ‘ The teaching was just something that kept me alive ; I 'd tried to live off music before that , and failed . |
| 13 | If I 'd tried to run for it . |
| 14 | I 'd tried waiting for the natural course of events to bring me the way of the creche , some errand Mrs Goreng might send me on , but it had n't worked out that way . |
| 15 | I might have been the butterfly I 'd watched enmeshed on the hanging geranium in Auntie 's backyard . |
| 16 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 17 | I thought I 'd got rid of that wretched reservation form . |
| 18 | After I 'd got rid of about half the beer I 'd drunk in the Arms , I went to have another look at the Factory . |
| 19 | I thought I 'd got rid of them all but I had n't , right ? |
| 20 | I 'd got nicked for burglary and , so , the only way to get out of it was by trying the hospital . |
| 21 | Not because I was made to be late , but I , I , I , I 'd , me mother had made me cos she said you got ta come home to your dinner and there was no buses there were trams in them days , but I 'd got to get into the town . |
| 22 | And there it hung until long after I 'd left to go to secondary school in Camelford . |
| 23 | I 'd started to get into a bit of a mess with speed . |
| 24 | I found myself gazing at the harmonium and my memories of the happy times I 'd spent listening to Miss Louise play came flooding back and I wept more . |
| 25 | He showed me the location of Bentwaters in the old AA Book of the Road I always carried and then bought the two ounces of Red from me at four times what I 'd agreed to pay for it . |
| 26 | But when we moved in here , because I 'd been away from him for five months and I 'd learned to cope for myself , I started standing up for myself and he did n't like it . |
| 27 | But that was just the way I 'd learned to think in the mountains . |
| 28 | ‘ I just could n't consider playing tennis professionally if I 'd had to stay in Ireland . ’ |
| 29 | White cotton sheets that I 'd had bought as a wedding present . |
| 30 | I did n't know how long I 'd wasted looking for the compass or how long I 'd knelt in capitulation . |